Interactive and "dual-boot" VMs are also supported since release 0.17, so that the user manually starts up the interactive VM when needed, and SMF shuts it down properly when needed.
Worked for Solaris 10 and VirtualBox 3.0.x since 2010, and for numerous later OS+VBox combinations. Recently tested with current Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.x releases on OpenIndiana Hipster host system, and for VirtualBox 5.2.24 built and provided by OpenIndiana Hipster packaging since 2019.
Some other command-line features available (graceful poweroff, soft ACPI reboot, hard reset, rude poweroff, status check, take ZFS snapshots of backing storage, etc.). Different "VM hardware clock" timezones can be configured for each VM ("UTC" is recommended). iSCSI) can be listed in a special SMF attribute Other datasets (such as raw ZVOLs passed with other methods - i.e. Since release 0.17, local ZVOLs dedicated to a VM as a virtual HDD (via VirtualBox internalcommands) can also be detected. Datasets containing the VM config files, VirtualBox snapshot files, and HDD image files, can be found automatically. Main new feature of release 0.15 is the ability of vbox.sh to create snapshots of ZFS datasets backing the VM and/or its data after shutdown, before startup, or on command-line request. Since release 0.16 the monitoring script can be used to delay completion of the VM's SMF start method to better ensure proper startup of SMF dependencies. VM can be rebooted or placed into SMF maintenance if it is not really working. "Hooks" to set up an external script to monitor that the VM is actually alive inside and does something useful. You can set up SMF dependencies between VM instances and system resources (as other SMF services) to ensure orderly startup and shutdown with the Solaris-based OS. Connect to VM serial consoles without service interruptions. Bring up a VBoxHeadless VM to manage it via X11 GUI console, then resume it as Solaris SMF service instance. Control VirtualBox VMs as Solaris SMF service instances, including VMs owned by unprivileged users and VMs running in Solaris local zones for extra resource control by the host OS.
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